Clothes-line support.



E.E.SHORT.- CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT.

gPPLIGATION FILED DBO.10,1909.

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EDWIN E. SHORT, OF PRAIRIE VIEW, KANSAS.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec 27, 1910.

Application filed December 10, 1909. Serial No. 532,453.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN E. SHORT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Prairie View, in the county of Phillips and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Supports,

of which the following is a specificatlon.

The invention relates to an improvement in clothes lines and supports therefor whereby one end of the line is secured to an adjustable support by which, when desired, a line may be extended into operative pos tion or the support folded out of the way when the line is not desired for use.

The main object of the present invention is the provision of a clothes line support which may be secured to a window casing and with the connected portion of the line folded into inoperative position when the line is not desired for use, the extension of the support serving to tighten the line into operative condition. 2

Another object of the invention is the provision of means whereby the clothes pins by which the clothes are supported from the line can be moved to any position on the line by simple manipulation on the part of the operator positioned adjacent the wmdow connected end of the line, thereby permitting convenient application of the clothes to the line and their adjustment on the line to the desired point.

The invention in its preferred details of construction will be described in the following specification, reference being had particularly to the accompanying drawings, 1n which T Figure 1 is a view in side elevation illustrating the improved clothes line and sup port therefor. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the adjustable support. Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan of the ad usting member for supporting the line remote from the support. Flg. 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawings, my improved clothes line support comprises a frame 1 made up of upper and lower bars 2 and 3 connected at their outer ends by a plate 4 and pivotally mounted at their inner ends in brackets 5 secured to the inner surface of a suitable fixture, as for example a window casing 6. Pivotally connected to the frame 1 at a point about central of the height of the plate 4 is an arm 7, to the outer end of which is pivotally connected a lever 8. The inner end of the lever is pivotally mounted on a bracket 9 secured to the fixture 6 at a point remote from the bracket 5, while the outer end of the lever, which extends beyond the pivotal connection of the lever and arm 7, is provided with a laterally projected section 9 formed with a series of openings 10. The arm 7 is formed with an opening 11 with which any one of the openings 10 is designed to register in the movement of the parts. A pin 12 is designed to cooperate with the opening 11 and the registering opening 10.

From the construction described it is obvious that the frame 1 may be folded against the fixture 6 by removing the pin 11 folding the arm connected end of the lever inwardly and drawing thereafter the frame 1, until the parts assume the position shown in the dotted lines in Fig. 2. When extended the frame is projected into a position at right angles to the fixture 6, the pin 12 being in serted through an opening in the arm 7 and the registering opening 10 of the lever thereby providing a rigid support for the frame. The relatively inner edge of the plate 4 is formed with an outturned lip 13 and a groove pulley 14 is pivotally mounted on the plate beyond the lip. To the fixture remote from the structure 6, as a post 15, is secured a line support including a threaded shank 16 designed to pass through the post 15, a housing band 17 in which is mounted the groove pulley 18, and an eye 19. The support is secured in the post so that the pulley 18 is in line with the pulley 14 of the frame 1, and an adjusting member 20 is threaded on the rod 16 beyond the post to permit the longitudinal adjustment of the support at will. The pulleys 14 and 18 are connected by an endless cable, preferably a rope 21, hereinafter termed a clothes-line, and the eye 19 and lip 13 are connected by a supportingcable 22 preferably of a suitable length of wire. Slidably mounted upon the wire 22 are a series of clothes pins 23 made up of spring material centrally formed to provide a spring coil 24 designed to encircle the supporting-cable 22, the material being projected from the respective ends of the coil to provide clamping arms 25 arranged respectively on opposing sides of the lower length of the clothes-line, the terminals of the arms being formed to provide comparatively broad clothes engaging clamps 26.

Each arm 25 is provided with a finger-piece I 27 arranged to permit the separation of the clamps 26 when desired to insert the clothes. It will be understood that each clothes pin is normally clamped about the clothes-line by the spring coil 24, so that the pin is, when in position on the supporting-cable, also secured to the clothes-line.

In use, the frame l-is moved to operative position, and the clothes pins are successively engaged with the supportingcable and clothes-line. One or more pins are connected to the article of clothing to be supported and the clothes-line then operated to move the pins and thereby the article supported by the pins lengthwise the supporting-cable to the desired point. The device may be thus operated to utilize the full length of the supporting-cable, and the clothes when dried may be conveniently removed from the clothes line by the reversal of the operation described.

It is to be particularly noted that the supporting-cable 22 is not oper atechso that when initially positioned and adjusted to the de sired tension will remain in such condition at all times.

Then not desired for use the frame may be folded as previously described to a position out of the way and this Without in any way effecting or requiring a disturbance of the supporting-cable or clothes-line. The tension of the clothes line may be adjusted by the adjustment of the support mounted on the post 15 as previously described.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is V 1. The combination with a supportingcable of a folding support including a frame, an arm pivotally connected with a frame, a pivotally mounted lever connected with the terminal of said arm, and means for securing the arm and lever in adjusted relation, a

remote support, a supportingcable fixedly a series of openings adapted to register with r the opening in the arm in determinate positions of the lever, and a pin to engage the registering openings.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN E. SHORT. Witnesses:

IRA LARSON, V. E. DYATT. 

